How To Grind A Parting Tool

If the tool is a little high it will have a tendency to climb the work.

How to grind a parting tool. This produces a less hollow grind. Being excited I went to the wood lathe to try out the new parting tool. Im assuming youre talking about your average HSS parting blade including P-type If you grind the top of the blade the tip becomes lower than the original top.

Do not grind on the top or sides just the front-end. You could also simply slide the tool further out of the Varigrind increase the stick-out after grinding the tool and quickly grind back the heel. Again the front cutting edge angle was not important although it is usually set to make the tip and less than 90 º.

Try placing a quarter in front of the wood block that should work. Then I used the disk sander to round off the corners and the wood end of the parting tool. Large adaptors can be clamped using two split bearing caps.

You can apply a degree of back rake at the same time too if you desire. In general the method is to use either a grinder or belt sander and then finish. Took it over to the 1 belt sander cleaned up the blade a little more and fine tuned the wood edges.

Loosen the tool post align the edge of the Be careful to not drop the 1-2-3 block. The un-skewed cutting edge of the parting tools actually makes them much easer to sharpen. A little low will cause a The tip of the tool should be exactly perpendicular to the workpiece.

Grinding down too far will have the effect of reducing the blade width and so limits the depth the tool can be plunged. Straight blanks for grinding parting tools are available in 9 widths from 23116 mm 00910457 inch. I couldnt find any specific information on angles or depths so this.